I recently experimented with building an Instagram OSINT project on Linux using Python and HikerAPI. Originally I tried older scraping libraries and unofficial Instagram API wrappers, but many of them were unreliable because Instagram now aggressively blocks automation attempts.

After some testing, I found that using an external API service like HikerAPI was much more stable for learning and development purposes.

Why I Switched

At first I used tools based on:

instagram-private-api